At least 25 people died in nine districts across the country as the cyclone Sitrang hit and crossed Barishal-Chattogram coast on Monday midnight, reports UNB.
According to reports from UNB correspondents from Chattogram, Cumilla, Narail, Sirajganj, Bhola, Barguna, Munshiganj, Noakhali and Gopalganj, it has been found that most of the casualties happened because of falling of trees since Monday morning as Bangladesh experienced moderate to heavy rains throughout the day.
In Chattogram, bodies of eight workers were recovered from the sea off the coast of Mirsarai on Tuesda as they went missing on Monday night after a dredger sank in the Bay of Bengal,.
Five of the deceased were identified as Mahmud Molla, Alamin, Imam Molla, Abul Bashar and Tarek. They were residents of Patuakhali district.
The sand lifting dredger Saikat-2 was anchored, with the eight workers on board, in the sea around 1000 feet away from the embankment in Bashundhara area of the upazila. But it sank when the storm triggered by Cyclone Sitrang intensified around 10 pm on Monday, said Md Kabir Hossain, officer-in-charge (OC) of Mirsarai Police Station.
Mirsarai police and fire service divers recovered the bodies from the sunken dredger around 2pm on Tuesday, the OC added.
At Sitakunda in Chattogram, the body of a seven-month-old girl child was recovered from a shipyard in the Bay of Bengal near the Kadamarsul area on Tuesday morning, said Mahbub, sub-inspector (SI) of Kumira Naval Police.
The body of the child was swept into the shipyard by the strong tide of the sea, he added.
In Munshiganj, a 28-year-old woman and her four-year-old daughter were killed when a huge tree collapsed on them while they were asleep on Monday night at Kanakshar village in Louhajang upazila of the district.
The deceased were identified as Asma Akter, wife of Abdur Razzak and Sumaiya Akter, said additional superintendent Munshiganj Police Yeasmin Ferdous.
Razzak was also injured during the incident. He was taken to Dhaka for better treatment.
In Noakhali, a one-year-old girl was killed and her mother was injured when a tree collapsed on them at Habibia village in Subarnachar upazila of the district early Tuesday.
The deceased was identified as Sneha, daughter of Abdullah of the village.
Debopriyo Das, officer-in-charge of Charjabbar Police Station, said the tree collapsed on their house when Amena Begum, 25 and her daughter Sneha were sleeping around 3 am during the storm.
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